A group of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members from the departments of Allied Health Sciences, Psychiatry, and Psychology including Drs. Grace Baranek, Linda Watson, Lauren Turner-Brown, Samuel Field, Elizabeth Crais, Linn Wakeford, Lauren Little, and J. Steven Reznick have authored a new article that will appear in the winter 2015 edition of the Autism Research and Treatment, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

The 2014 Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, the Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists, and the International Society for Occupational Science Joint International Conference in Occupational Science, hosted by St. Catherine University, convened October 16-18 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Our vision is to be a leader in allied health sciences research and scholarship, working to improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities in North Carolina and beyond.

Our mission is to build a strong interdisciplinary research culture, generating knowledge in allied health sciences and translating that knowledge to address the needs of our local, national, and global communities. We support a research environment that encourages myriad approaches to ethical scientific inquiry that are unified through effective collaborations, transformative scholarship, and exemplary mentoring of the next generation of scientists.

-finalized and approved by the DAHS Research Advisory Committee on June 27, 2012